Motivational Quotes

Work

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

- Cahill, Michael C.

Best Quotes about Work

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

23.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.